This title does sound a little ominous but I assure you, it is meant that way.
As many of my close friends are aware, I suffer deeply with depression and although this is not entirely evident in my day to day life and attitude, once every few months, I am consumed by extremes of sadness which I call 'dark days'.
I don't mean to depress you whilst reading this but I thought it would help for you to understand what I am about to write and help you to see that this is not pathetic moaning but in fact something that plagues me in my darker moments.
As you know from my previous post, I have started to design again which has brought up my moods considerably as work has been taking over my thoughts a lot more recently. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to be employed in these, the most unemployed times for britain, but sometimes the prospect of staying in this job forever depresses me.
I want to be part of a design team so desperately but it seems a number of things are getting in my way.
I like sales and I like being able to enthuse about a product with my colleagues and my customers but the ever pressing matter of selling other services to customers has all but taken over it seems. This has somewhat dampened my spirits although I think that, given my condition, it is not work which has made me this way, merely, work just happened to upset me when I was due for a period of depression.
REGARDLESS, I am striving on with my design and have been editing and researching my design style and trying to glitch things as much as possible. Glitch art inspires me so much and I am going to share a couple images with you to show you what I've been looking at.
(As a side note, I would like to point out that I own none of this images or the rights to them but they were all found using the Google Search Engine).
As many of my close friends are aware, I suffer deeply with depression and although this is not entirely evident in my day to day life and attitude, once every few months, I am consumed by extremes of sadness which I call 'dark days'.
I don't mean to depress you whilst reading this but I thought it would help for you to understand what I am about to write and help you to see that this is not pathetic moaning but in fact something that plagues me in my darker moments.
As you know from my previous post, I have started to design again which has brought up my moods considerably as work has been taking over my thoughts a lot more recently. Don't get me wrong, I am happy to be employed in these, the most unemployed times for britain, but sometimes the prospect of staying in this job forever depresses me.
I want to be part of a design team so desperately but it seems a number of things are getting in my way.
I like sales and I like being able to enthuse about a product with my colleagues and my customers but the ever pressing matter of selling other services to customers has all but taken over it seems. This has somewhat dampened my spirits although I think that, given my condition, it is not work which has made me this way, merely, work just happened to upset me when I was due for a period of depression.
REGARDLESS, I am striving on with my design and have been editing and researching my design style and trying to glitch things as much as possible. Glitch art inspires me so much and I am going to share a couple images with you to show you what I've been looking at.
(As a side note, I would like to point out that I own none of this images or the rights to them but they were all found using the Google Search Engine).
This image both illustrates the glitching of which my whole project is based but also ties nicely in with the 'analog' glitching that i have been doing by running my printer out of ink and still printing from it, dripping bleach onto photographs and purposefully knocking my camera when I take a picture.
I want ot re-create this effect using photoshop and the methods detailed about to get the desired glitch and continue this until I have a thorough back-catalogue of images for which to be inspired by.
I want ot re-create this effect using photoshop and the methods detailed about to get the desired glitch and continue this until I have a thorough back-catalogue of images for which to be inspired by.
This image was one of the images that pulled me into the technological sludge that is glitch art and I particularly like this image because it is simple and evokes an emotion of pain and frustration, much like the frustration I feel when faced with glitches of my own software. The techniques used are simple and easily reproducible on Adobe Photoshop and by hand with a little collage.
Okay so that wasn't a lot of images but I just had a fabulous idea for some textiles samples and techniques that I am now dying to test out!
Thank you lovelies for reading this, if indeed anyone IS reading this and I hope you are all happy and well.
Until next time,
Hx
Okay so that wasn't a lot of images but I just had a fabulous idea for some textiles samples and techniques that I am now dying to test out!
Thank you lovelies for reading this, if indeed anyone IS reading this and I hope you are all happy and well.
Until next time,
Hx